The virus hunters who search bat caves to predict the next pandemic
4 years, 8 months ago

The virus hunters who search bat caves to predict the next pandemic

CNN  

Anderson Cooper examines the possible connection between bats and many deadly human viruses in CNN Special Report “Bats: The Mystery Behind Covid-19.” Watch Sunday at 10 p.m. ET/PT. “We also carry out oral and faecal swabs and gather droppings,” says Peter Daszak, who presides over EcoHealth Alliance, an American NGO which specializes in detecting new viruses and pandemic prevention. “It wasn’t seen as a sexy branch of medical research,” says Wang Linfa, a virologist from Duke-NUS in Singapore, who develops the tools used to analyze the samples collected by EcoHealth Alliance. “These are areas with lots of wildlife biodiversity, a growing human population encroaching on the natural habitat, good travel networks and a large amount of livestock, which means there is a high potential for virus spillovers between species,” says Dawn Zimmerman, who leads some of the Smithsonian Institution’s virus sampling expeditions. Smithsonian institute “The blood samples taken from the bats contain antibodies, which they produced to fight off the virus,” says Wang.

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Covid-19 variants still transmissible between species, finds new study
2 years, 1 month ago

Covid-19 variants still transmissible between species, finds new study

Hindustan Times  

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is still highly transmissible between mammals, according to a study based on computer simulations. The findings, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, show how the viral spike proteins in several SARS-CoV-2 variants interact with the host cell receptors known as ACE2 in both humans and various bats of genus Rhinolophus. "We were hoping to see …

Vaccine-resistant new COVID-like virus discovered in Russian bats could infect humans, finds study
2 years, 3 months ago

Vaccine-resistant new COVID-like virus discovered in Russian bats could infect humans, finds study

Firstpost  

Washington: A newS-CoV-2-like virus discovered in Russian bats is capable of infecting humans, and is resistant to current vaccines against COVID-19, a study has found. A team led by researchers at Washington State University, US, found spike proteins from the bat virus, named Khosta-2, can infect human cells and is resistant to both the antibody therapies and blood serum from …

Bat coronaviruses silently infect tens of thousands of people each year, posing pandemic risk, study warns
2 years, 4 months ago

Bat coronaviruses silently infect tens of thousands of people each year, posing pandemic risk, study warns

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy There may be an average of over 65,000 cases of bat coronaviruses silently infecting people …

Where do bats get their terrifying reputation from?
2 years, 8 months ago

Where do bats get their terrifying reputation from?

The Independent  

Dracula has a lot to answer for. So when they jump to a different host like a human, it’s like a free playground where they can go on the rampage.” open image in gallery Linfa Wang, aka ‘Batman’, is one of the world’s leading specialists in the study of the potential medical benefits of bats As Covid-19 brought about millions …

Origins of virus responsible for Covid-19 traced to horseshoe bats
2 years, 10 months ago

Origins of virus responsible for Covid-19 traced to horseshoe bats

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It is clear that recombination is a defining feature of SARS-related coronaviruses and essential …

Scientists find bats with Covid-like viruses in Laos caves
3 years, 3 months ago

Scientists find bats with Covid-like viruses in Laos caves

India Today  

Scientists have discovered another clue to the origins of the virus that causes Covid-19, with bats living in caves in Laos found to be carrying a similar pathogen that experts suggest could potentially infect humans directly. Researchers from France's Pasteur Institute and the National University of Laos said their findings showed that viruses genetically close to the SARS-CoV-2 virus "exist …

Cambodia bat researchers on mission to track Covid-19 origins
3 years, 3 months ago

Cambodia bat researchers on mission to track Covid-19 origins

India Today  

Researchers are collecting samples from bats in northern Cambodia in a bid to understand the coronavirus pandemic, returning to a region where a very similar virus was found in the animals a decade ago. "We hope that the result from this study can help the world to have a better understanding about Covid-19," field coordinator Thavry Hoem told Reuters, as …

Covid-19 virus highly adapted to infect human cells, finds study
3 years, 6 months ago

Covid-19 virus highly adapted to infect human cells, finds study

India Today  

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, is most ideally adapted to infect human cells, rather than bat or pangolin cells, according to a study which raises questions about the origin of the virus. "The computer modelling found the virus's ability to bind to the bat ACE2 protein was poor relative to its ability to bind human cells,” Winkler said. This …

Peter Daszak was studying Coronavirus in China a year before Covid-19
3 years, 6 months ago

Peter Daszak was studying Coronavirus in China a year before Covid-19

Op India  

On June 14, it was reported that a video had emerged showing live bats in Wuhan Institute of Virology, adding to the theory that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may have leaked from the institute, accidentally or otherwise. These viruses include those able to bind to ACE2, the human cell-surface receptor for SARS-CoV, and able to infect and cause illness in the …

World Health Assembly under lens as demand for fuller probe into China link to Covid-19 grows
3 years, 7 months ago

World Health Assembly under lens as demand for fuller probe into China link to Covid-19 grows

Hindustan Times  

Amidst a US intelligence report that advocates a larger probe into the possibility that the Covid-19 virus could have leaked from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, the World Health Assembly is meeting today to pass an anodyne resolution on setting up of an inter-governmental working group to further discuss the submitted three reports investigating the origins of the global pandemic …

Bat out of hell? Covid is global but questions over Wuhan lab leak won't go away
3 years, 7 months ago

Bat out of hell? Covid is global but questions over Wuhan lab leak won't go away

India Today  

“In the wake of any disaster -- a train derailment, a plane crash, a rocket explosion, a reactor meltdown, a terror attack or a war -- the causes of the disaster are investigated and the findings are used to inform policy changes to reduce the risks and the impacts of future disasters. Given the fact that Wuhan, the place where …

WHO-China study on COVID-19 origin says transmission from bats to humans via another animal 'very likely'
3 years, 9 months ago

WHO-China study on COVID-19 origin says transmission from bats to humans via another animal 'very likely'

ABC  

A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario. Key points: The Associated Press says it has obtained a draft copy of the report that outlines the study's findings Overall, the findings are largely as expected and left many questions unanswered The …

Animals were likely source of coronavirus, not lab leak, WHO says
3 years, 9 months ago

Animals were likely source of coronavirus, not lab leak, WHO says

LA Times  

A WHO-China joint study press conference is held Feb. 9 at the end of a WHO mission to investigate the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China. A joint World Health Organization-China study on the origins of the coronavirus says transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal was the most likely scenario and that a lab …

Next Pandemic: Scientists Fear Another Coronavirus Could Jump From Animals To Humans
3 years, 9 months ago

Next Pandemic: Scientists Fear Another Coronavirus Could Jump From Animals To Humans

NPR  

Next Pandemic: Scientists Fear Another Coronavirus Could Jump From Animals To Humans Enlarge this image toggle caption Steeve Jordan/AFP via Getty Images Steeve Jordan/AFP via Getty Images When the pandemic began last year, scientists went looking for the origins of the coronavirus. Sponsor Message This past year, Holmes and his colleagues trapped several hundred bats in a tiny section of …

Research team locates 24 bat coronaviruses in southwestern China
3 years, 9 months ago

Research team locates 24 bat coronaviruses in southwestern China

India TV News  

During the search for the origin of the novel coronavirus, an international team of scientists has found 24 previously unknown bat coronaviruses, with four of them related to the strain that causes COVID-19, within a 4 km radius in southwestern China. One virus carried 'a genomic backbone arguably the closest to SARS-CoV-2 identified to date, but none appeared to be …

Coronavirus jumped from bats to humans with 'very little change', say scientists
3 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus jumped from bats to humans with 'very little change', say scientists

India Today  

The progenitor of the novel coronavirus underwent "very little change" to adapt to humans from bats, according to a new study which suggests that the ability of the virus to spread from one person to another likely evolved in the flying mammal prior to it jumping to its new human host. "Usually viruses that jump to a new host species …

WHO Dismisses Theory That Virus Escaped From Lab As 'Extremely Unlikely'
3 years, 10 months ago

WHO Dismisses Theory That Virus Escaped From Lab As 'Extremely Unlikely'

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A group of World Health Organization researchers called the theory that the coronavirus pandemic is the result of a Chinese lab accident “extremely unlikely” following two weeks of fieldwork looking into the pandemic’s origins. That determination was made after “long, frank, open discussions with researchers and management” at the Wuhan Institute of Virology ― the lab suspected …

Where did coronavirus originate and what is China hiding from rest of the world
3 years, 10 months ago

Where did coronavirus originate and what is China hiding from rest of the world

Op India  

Where did Chinese coronavirus come from? The dark day that plunged the world into lockdown Shi Zhengli, famously called the ‘bat woman’ of China, has actively worked on coronavirus and has identified dozens of strains that can potentially cause an epidemic. According to DRASTIC, a network of researchers and scientists, this particular database is the most important bat coronavirus database …

World Health Organization team in China says COVID-19 probably came from animals, but no evidence it originated in bats
3 years, 11 months ago

World Health Organization team in China says COVID-19 probably came from animals, but no evidence it originated in bats

ABC  

The World Health Organization team in the Chinese city of Wuhan says viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2 can be found in many animals, but they have been unable to find direct evidence of animal-human transmission. Key points: Bats and pangolins could possibly be the reservoir due to high similarities of genetic sequence But there was no evidence to suggest their coronavirus …

Coronavirus | WHO team visits Wuhan virus lab at centre of speculation
3 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus | WHO team visits Wuhan virus lab at centre of speculation

The Hindu  

World Health Organisation investigators on Wednesday visited a research centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus, with one member saying they intended to meet key staff and press them on critical issues. Uniformed and plainclothes security guards stood watch along the facility’s gated front entrance, but there …

China takes WHO team to Wuhan bat lab at center of coronavirus conspiracies
3 years, 11 months ago

China takes WHO team to Wuhan bat lab at center of coronavirus conspiracies

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — A team of World Health Organization investigators in Wuhan are visiting a laboratory Wednesday that has been the focus of conspiracies and speculation about the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, the Wuhan lab team led by virologist Shi Zhengli, known as China’s “bat woman” for years of virus-hunting expeditions in bat caves, has focused …

Wuhan Scientists Say They Were Bitten By Coronavirus Infected Bats While Collecting Samples
3 years, 11 months ago

Wuhan Scientists Say They Were Bitten By Coronavirus Infected Bats While Collecting Samples

News 18  

Scientists of a laboratory in Wuhan in China, where the cases were first Covid-19 cases and the Covid-19 pandemic has been theorized to have originated, in a new video, revealed that they had been bitten by bats who may have been infected. While the SARS-Cov-2 virus or Covid-19 emerged in Wuhan in end 2019, around late Autumn, the video is …

Scientists focus on bats for clues to prevent next pandemic
4 years ago

Scientists focus on bats for clues to prevent next pandemic

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — Night began to fall in Rio de Janeiro’s Pedra Branca state park as four Brazilian scientists switched on their flashlights to traipse along a narrow trail of mud through dense rainforest. “The secret is that bats have unusual immune systems, and that’s related to their ability to fly,” said Raina Plowright, an epidemiologist who studies bats …

Scientists focus on bats for clues to prevent next pandemic
4 years ago

Scientists focus on bats for clues to prevent next pandemic

Live Mint  

Rio de Janeiro, AP — Night began to fall in Rio de Janeiro’s Pedra Branca state park as four Brazilian scientists switched on their flashlights to traipse along a narrow trail of mud through dense rainforest. The November nighttime outing was part of a project at Brazil’s state-run Fiocruz Institute to collect and study viruses present in wild animals — …

Scientists focus on bats for clues to prevent next pandemic
4 years ago

Scientists focus on bats for clues to prevent next pandemic

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — Night began to fall in Rio de Janeiro’s Pedra Branca state park as four Brazilian scientists switched on their flashlights to traipse along a narrow trail of mud through dense rainforest. The November nighttime outing was part of a project at Brazil’s state-run Fiocruz Institute to collect and study viruses present in wild animals — including …

Scientists focus on bats for clues to prevent next pandemic
4 years ago

Scientists focus on bats for clues to prevent next pandemic

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The secret is that bats have unusual immune systems, …

2 viruses closely related to coronavirus found in Japan, Cambodia
4 years, 1 month ago

2 viruses closely related to coronavirus found in Japan, Cambodia

Hindustan Times  

Researchers, health experts and scientists across the globe have agreed that Sars-CoV-2, the virus which causes the coronavirus disease, originated through bats or pangolins. Now, a recent discovery has revealed a form of coronavirus very closely related to the current one in horseshoe bats stored in a freezer in Cambodia, researchers told scientific journal Nature. These findings do not give …

Chinese Virologist Called 'Bat Woman' Shows Proof Her Lab is not Source of Covid-19 Pandemic
4 years, 1 month ago

Chinese Virologist Called 'Bat Woman' Shows Proof Her Lab is not Source of Covid-19 Pandemic

News 18  

Shi Zhengli, a virologist from China who is popularly known as the bat woman, has provided new evidence that the novel coronavirus did not originate from her lab. The research that has been published in the scientific journal Nature and expands on her research done in February and provides latest evidence that Shi’s lab is not the source of the …

AP PHOTOS: Thai scientists catch bats to trace virus origins
4 years, 4 months ago

AP PHOTOS: Thai scientists catch bats to trace virus origins

Associated Press  

KANCHANABURI, Thailand — Researchers in Thailand have been trekking though the countryside to catch bats in their caves in an effort to trace the murky origins of the coronavirus. Initial research has already pointed to bats as the source of the virus that has afflicted more than 20.5 million people and caused the deaths of over 748,000 worldwide, according to …

Thai scientists catch bats to trace origins of the coronavirus
4 years, 4 months ago

Thai scientists catch bats to trace origins of the coronavirus

LA Times  

A researcher removes a bat from a trapping net inside a cave at Sai Yok National Park in Thailand. Researchers in Thailand have been trekking though the countryside to catch bats in their caves in an effort to trace the murky origins of the coronavirus. Thai researchers hiked up a hill in Sai Yok National Park in the western province …

Covid-19 Virus Has Been Circulating in Bats for Decades: Study
4 years, 5 months ago

Covid-19 Virus Has Been Circulating in Bats for Decades: Study

News 18  

New York An international team of researchers has discovered that the lineage that gave rise to the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that is responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic, has been circulating in bats for decades and likely includes other viruses with the ability to infect humans. "Coronaviruses have genetic material that is highly recombinant, meaning different regions of the virus's genome …

Lineage Behind Novel Coronavirus May Have Been 'Circulating Unnoticed' in Bats for Decades: Study
4 years, 5 months ago

Lineage Behind Novel Coronavirus May Have Been 'Circulating Unnoticed' in Bats for Decades: Study

News 18  

The lineage that gave rise to the novel coronavirus diverged from the most closely related bat viruses about 40 to 70 years ago, according to a new study which sheds light on the origin of the viral strain behind the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings, published in the journal Nature Microbiology, suggest that the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, is likely to have …

6 reasons why bats aren’t enemies, starting with tequila
4 years, 6 months ago

6 reasons why bats aren’t enemies, starting with tequila

CNN  

Anderson Cooper examines the possible connection between bats and many deadly human viruses in CNN Special Report “Bats: The Mystery Behind Covid-19.” Watch Sunday at 10 p.m. ET/PT. “Ninety-six percent is a different virus; it’s a bit like the difference between us and chimpanzees,” Peter Daszak, the president of the non-profit EcoHealth Alliance, explains in CNN Special Report “Bats: The …

World Environment Day 2020: Bats are not the enemy in the fight against the novel Coronavirus
4 years, 7 months ago

World Environment Day 2020: Bats are not the enemy in the fight against the novel Coronavirus

Firstpost  

Oversimplification of scientific facts and misinterpretations have triggered a backlash against bats, prompting biologists to clear the air on bat-borne viruses. In a statement released on April 24, 2020, 64 chiropterologists from six South Asian nations debunked myths on COVID-19 and bats stating that bats do not spread the novel coronavirus disease.”The novel coronavirus diverged from the closest coronavirus found …

'How coronavirus jumped from animals to humans decoded'
4 years, 7 months ago

'How coronavirus jumped from animals to humans decoded'

India TV News  

The novel coronavirus was well-suited to jump from animals to humans by shapeshifting and gaining the ability to infect people, according to a study which sheds light on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. "Very much like the original SARS that jumped from bats to civets, or MERS that went from bats to dromedary camels, and then to humans, the …

Pangolins may have incubated the novel coronavirus, gene study shows
4 years, 7 months ago

Pangolins may have incubated the novel coronavirus, gene study shows

CNN  

CNN — A deep dive into the genetics of the novel coronavirus shows it seems to have spent some time infecting both bats and pangolins before it jumped into humans, researchers said Friday. What is clear is that the coronavirus has swapped genes repeatedly with similar strains infecting bats, pangolins and a possible third species, a team of researchers from …

VIDEO: Virus Hunters Seek To Solve The Mystery Of Coronavirus Origins
4 years, 7 months ago

VIDEO: Virus Hunters Seek To Solve The Mystery Of Coronavirus Origins

NPR  

VIDEO: Virus Hunters Seek To Solve The Mystery Of Coronavirus Origins Michael Zamora and Ben de la Cruz/NPR YouTube Scientists have learned a great deal about how the novel coronavirus spreads. But bats also harbor some of the toughest known zoonotic diseases — those caused by germs that spread between animals and people. The virus has a 96% genetic similarity …

Amid COVID-19, let’s not forget how bats help our environment
4 years, 7 months ago

Amid COVID-19, let’s not forget how bats help our environment

The Hindu  

Let us get two things straight. Because, “The current pandemic virus, SARS-CoV-2 has not been identified in any bat species, to date.” Two: Of the thousands of bat species around the world, only one — the intermediate horseshoe bat — is linked to COVID-19, that too indirectly. The most common ones that people see in India are the large Common …

Was the coronavirus made in a Wuhan lab? Here’s what the genetic evidence shows
4 years, 8 months ago

Was the coronavirus made in a Wuhan lab? Here’s what the genetic evidence shows

LA Times  

Like the virus whose origin it purports to explain, the following conjecture refuses to die: The novel coronavirus was cooked up in a Chinese lab and either escaped or was intentionally released. At some point near the end of 2019, the virus’ genetic code mutated in a way that allowed it to jump from its animal “reservoir” to its first …

Decoded: How bats carry coronavirus without getting sick
4 years, 8 months ago

Decoded: How bats carry coronavirus without getting sick

India TV News  

Scientists have uncovered how bats can carry the MERS coronavirus without getting sick, shedding light on what triggers coronaviruses, including the one behind the COVID-19 pandemic, to jump to humans. We wanted to understand why the MERS virus doesn't shut down the bat immune responses as it does in humans," said USask microbiologist Vikram Misra. "Instead of killing bat cells …

Coronavirus: Exterminating bats blamed for spreading Covid-19 would increase risk of further diseases, warn experts
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Exterminating bats blamed for spreading Covid-19 would increase risk of further diseases, warn experts

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Exterminating colonies of bats because they were the source of Covid-19 would be pointless and …

Newly discovered bats are related to those associated with the pandemic
4 years, 8 months ago

Newly discovered bats are related to those associated with the pandemic

CNN  

CNN — Four new species of African leaf-nosed bats have been discovered, and they’re related to the horseshoe bats that have become known as the host for novel coronavirus. “Bats are small, nocturnal and use high-frequency sound and smell to identify their species to other bats,” said Bruce Patterson, lead study author and Macarthur curator of mammals at Chicago’s Field …

Coronavirus | Humans to blame for pandemic
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus | Humans to blame for pandemic

The Hindu  

Whether it came from a bat or a pangolin is not certain, but one thing is: the coronavirus outbreak comes from the animal world. Gwenael Vourc’h of INRAE, a French public research institute, also blames human activity for the crossover between species.“Given the growth of the human population and its ever more intense use of planetary resources, the destruction of …

Study: bat coronaviruses not related to COVID-19
4 years, 8 months ago

Study: bat coronaviruses not related to COVID-19

The Hindu  

The coronaviruses detected in the Pteropus and Rousettus species of bats from different States, including Kerala, have nothing to do with COVID-19, researchers have said. Moreover, the newly identified bat coronavirus had no role in spreading any diseases in human beings, Pragya D. Yadav, the first author of the study, told The Hindu. Mass killing Several wildlife researchers, including those …

Bat coronaviruses discovered in Myanmar study don't appear to harm humans
4 years, 8 months ago

Bat coronaviruses discovered in Myanmar study don't appear to harm humans

Firstpost  

Last week, scientists from the Smithsonian’s Global Health program discovered six new coronaviruses in bats living in popular caves in Myanmar. Scientists associated with the United States Agency for International Development’s PREDICT program have discovered 140 new coronaviruses since 2009, with the aim of studying their effects on humans and planning interventions to mitigate future outbreaks. Last week, scientists from …

Study shows pangolins might be the missing link that passed the Coronavirus from bats to humans
4 years, 8 months ago

Study shows pangolins might be the missing link that passed the Coronavirus from bats to humans

Firstpost  

The scientific community agree that SARS-CoV-2 originated in horseshoe bats but it is unlikely that it was directly passed onto humans. Mystery of zoonotic transmission Since January 2020, the current consensus among the scientific community is that SARS-CoV-2 originated in horseshoe bats ; however, it’s unlikely that bats directly gave the virus to humans based on what’s known about transmission …

Coronaviruses found in two Indian bat species: ICMR study
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronaviruses found in two Indian bat species: ICMR study

India Today  

As the world grapples with coronavirus, researchers have found the presence of a different kind of coronavirus -- bat coronavirus --in two bat species from Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, according to a study by the Indian Council of Medical Research. The study has been published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, Twenty-five bats of Rousettus and …

Coronavirus Outbreak Updates: Jaipur worst-hit in Rajasthan with district reporting 83 of 108 new cases; state's tally climbs to 1,005, toll at 11
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus Outbreak Updates: Jaipur worst-hit in Rajasthan with district reporting 83 of 108 new cases; state's tally climbs to 1,005, toll at 11

Firstpost  

10:32 PM Whatsapp Facebook Twitter Coronavirus in India Latest Updates ICMR study finds presence of ‘bat coronavirus’ in two Indian bat species As the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, researchers have found the presence of a different kind of coronavirus — bat coronavirus — in two bat species from Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, according to a …

Where Did The Coronavirus Start? Virus Hunters Find Clues In Bats : Short Wave : NPR
4 years, 8 months ago

Where Did The Coronavirus Start? Virus Hunters Find Clues In Bats : Short Wave : NPR

NPR  

Where Did This Coronavirus Originate? Virus Hunters Find Genetic Clues In Bats Enlarge this image toggle caption Justin Ng/Linfa Wang Justin Ng/Linfa Wang Updated at 11 a.m. Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China compared its genome to a library of known viruses — and found a 96% match with coronavirus samples taken from horseshoe bats from Yunnan. …

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